Here are some other highlights from the numerous accolades and milestones that Stellar Solutions has received and achieved in its 25-year history.
- 2021: Celeste Ford Receives Baldrige Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2020: Stellar Solutions celebrates 25 Years of Service.
- 2020: Celeste Ford named a winner of the 2020 Enterprising Women of the Year Awards, an annual tribute that is widely considered one of the most esteemed recognitions for women entrepreneurs.
- 2020: Celeste Ford Named a Winner of 2020 Enterprising Women of the Year Award
- 2019: QuakeFinder Team Proposal Succeeds in Phase 2 of $1.2M NGA R&D Competition
- 2019: QuakeFinder Earthquake Forecasting Research Published
- 2019: Michael Lencioni is named Stellar Solutions CEO, and Celeste Ford transitions to Chair of the Board of Directors.
- 2019: Celeste Ford Wins First-Ever Silicon Valley “Woman of Wisdom” Award
- 2018: Stellar Solutions Aerospace France founded to serve customers in overseas markets.
- 2017: Stellar Solutions receives the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest honor in performance excellence and sustainability.
- 2015: Via Satellite: Humanitarian R&D Excellence Award
- 2014: Stellar Solutions wins the first of continuous annual recognitions (2014 – present) as a Fortune Magazine Great Place to Work Award for small- and medium-sized businesses.
- 2014: National Defense Industrial Association: Small Business Executive of the Year
- 2014: Inc. Magazine & The Principal Group: Top 10 Companies for Financial Security
- 2013, 2014: San Francisco Business Times: Forever Influential Honor Roll
- 2012: New Stellar Solutions sector created–Defense Support and Cyber.
- 2011: New sector, Government Programs, created.
- 2009: Diversity Business: Top 500 Women-Owned Businesses in the U.S. (also 2011, 2014, 2015)
- 2009: Celeste Ford receives the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year Award.
- 2008, 2010: California Award for Performance Excellence (CAPE) – Silver
- 2004: Stellar Solutions Aerospace Ltd. is launched for customers in the United Kingdom and Europe.
- 2003: QuakeSat, a collaboration between QuakeFinder and Stanford University, is among the first CubeSats ever launched to space–on a two-year proof-of-concept mission for collecting earthquake-precursor signals from orbit. Stellar Solutions becomes the first small business to successfully build, launch and operate its own satellite.
- 2001: QuakeFinder is founded as the Humanitarian R&D division of Stellar Solutions. It becomes the world’s leading private earthquake forecasting research organization, dedicated to the discovery of methods for warning communities of imminent destructive earthquakes.
- 2000: Stellar Ventures launched as an investment enterprise and incubator fostering early-stage technology development and market applications. It was re-launched in 2017 to take advantage of the venture backed disruption to the aerospace industry (“new space”).
- 2000: Stellar Advisor program initiated to engage experienced senior engineering experts on a part-time basis to complement a full-time workforce.
- 1998: Stellar Solutions Foundation established to support community-based organizations and charities.
- 1995: In its first year of business, Stellar Solutions secures contracts with pioneering satellite company Space Imaging (now DigitalGlobe) and begins a long history of commercial and defense support.